Postdoctoral researchers:
Dr. Cecilia Brioni
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Professor Clodagh Brook
Post-doctoral research project: (Trans) National Online Communities: Celebrity, Identity, and Reception on YouTube Italia'.
This project analyses self-representations of Italian YouTubers, young video creators who produce original video material and upload it on the platform, and their audiences.
Dr. Adele Bardazzi
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Professor Clodagh Brook
Post-doctoral research project: A Textile Poetics of Entanglement
This interdisciplinary project investigates the relationship between the poetic text and textiles, arguing that the interaction between the language of poetry and that of textile practices, which is at the core of what I call ‘textile poems’, can be understood through a paradigm of productive entanglements.
Collaborative Projects: Non solo muse, Italian Poetry Today
Dr. Lorenzo Dell’Ozo
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Dr. Igor Candido
Post-doctoral research project: Theology, Aristotelianism, and Poetry in Late-Medieval Italy: Dante’s Intellectual Formation in Florence and Bologna (1283-1307)
It aims to provide an extended and interdisciplinary study of knowledge acquisition by lay literates (i.e. those without formal Latinate education) in the late Middle Ages and, more specifically, to analyse the theological and philosophical formation of Dante Alighieri, in Florence (1283-1302) and Bologna (1304-1307).
Dr. Eleonora Lima
Visiting Research Fellow (completed EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2018-20)
Advisor: Professor Clodagh Brook.
Post-doctoral research project: Mapping Remediation in Italian Literature Beyond the Digital Revolution
This project investigates the intermedial dialogue between Italian literature and electronic media—analogue and digital—so as to provide a detailed evaluation of the process of remediation in Italian literature from the mid-1950s up to the present day. The project aims to challenge the dominant critical paradigm, which sees the digital revolution as an unprecedented turning point in the relationship between literature and electronic media, and to question the intellectual approach which opposes inert literature and all-powerful electronic media.
PhD Researchers (Current and Recent)
Giulia Bonaldi – PhD Italian
Supervisor: Igor Candido
Research topic: Smiling, Weeping and Knowledge in Dante and Medieval Culture. Giulia Bonaldi studies the function and meanings of the concepts of smile and weeping in Dante’s works and in the theological and literary medieval context, in light of the peculiar and unexplored relation that these emotional expressions have with knowledge.
Research Interest: Dante and Medieval studies.
Martina Mendola – PhD Italian
Supervisors: Giuliana Adamo and Clodagh Brook
Research topic: Contemporary Italian literature - trans media Italian pulp fictions and the literary canon.
Research interest: the literary experience of the so called “Gioventù cannibale” which occurred in Italy in the nineties, with a focus on the relationship between this experience and the literary canon (coming of age story specifically).
Gianluca Caccialupi – PhD Italian
Supervisor: Igor Candido
Research topic: Dante's "Divine Comedy" and the "Queste del Saint Graal". Project funded by the Irish Research Council (2019-2023): Project 209309, Award 15909. Gianluca's dissertation aims to provide a comprehensive comparative study of the anonymous Old French romance Queste del Saint Graal and Dante’s Divine Comedy. By showing key thematic features common to both works, this research is meant to challenge the traditional theory of Dante’s condemnation of the Arthurian literature as a whole, as well as provide evidence of a direct relationship between these two masterpieces of medieval literature. This study also aims to demonstrate that the representation of Dante’s journey to the Otherworld has inherited typical features of Irish myths, which derive from both the Navigatio sancti Brendani and the Queste.
Research interests: Dante Studies, Medieval Italian Literature, Arthurian Literature, Medieval French Literature, Romance Philology.
Federico Vigano'– PhD Italian
Supervisor: Clodagh Brook
Research topic: The influence of Maoism in the cinema of Marco Bellocchio: from I pugni in tasca to Buongiorno notte
Research interests: links between groups of the revolutionary left and artistic production in Italy of the 1960s and 1970s
Dr Molly Flynn Tanis – completed
Supervisor: Giuliana Adamo
Research topic: Animals and Dreams as threshold space interlocutors in Italo Calvino's first period war novels, a pathway to understanding the essence of humanity
Dr Elisabetta Leopardi – completed
Supervisor: Peter Arnds and Clodagh Brook
Research topic: Morphology of the Phenomenon of Metamorphosis in Literature: New Approaches to the Problems of Systematization
Dr Paola Orrù – completed
Supervisor: Giuliana Adamo
Research topic: Genesis of an author: the early works of Mario Praz.